Google Apps Premier Edition includes 24x7 phone support, email, calendaring, mobile email, team sites, productivity tools, employee-generated video, and 25 gigabytes of storage per mailbox. Google has over 10 million Google Apps mailboxes and 300,000 businesses, and is growing weekly by thousands of businesses.

Engage with Bunch of Cowboys to plan, deploy, and manage your Google Apps Premier Edition rollout. We work with you to migrate your e-mail, calendar, contacts, and data to Google Apps. Additional tasks requiring our experience can include configuration, customization migration, training, integration, and much more.

Contact us on 02 84576504 for assistance with your Google Apps migration.

Why Google Apps Premier Edition for Business?

Key Benefits:

• Access services from anywhere, anytime: Get your email, calendar, contacts, and documents from any computer, anywhere.
• Lots of storage: You get a full 25 GB of online storage for your email, so you never have to delete a message.
• Enhanced message organization and retrieval: With Google Mail, you can label your messages in multiple ways to organize and store them more efficiently. And with the Google-powered search feature, you can find any message quickly and easily.
• Easy calendar sharing: You can quickly and easily share your calendar with your coworkers and specify the details you want to show. Calendar sharing is a great way for you and your coworkers to keep each other informed about your schedules.
• Real-time collaboration: With Google Docs, you can create documents, spreadsheets, and presentations, and you and your team members can view and edit them all at the same time.
• Integrated chat -- With the Google Talk instant messaging application, you can communicate instantly with your coworkers right from the Email interface. In addition, all your chats are automatically saved in your Email application, so you can always retrieve important information.
• Easy-to-build team web sites -- With Google Sites, your team has the ability to quickly publish a robust internal web site on which to gather all sorts of shared information, such as documents, spreadsheets, presentations, files, and videos. You can even embed Google calendars and other gadgets on your site!
• Powerful video sharing -- Using Google Video for business, you can easily share videos with your team or throughout the [company/organization] for a whole new level of communication and collaboration.



Why Partner with Bunch of Cowboys for Google Apps?




We provide the vital role of helping you get the best out of Google Apps for your business. We can provide all aspects of SaaS management for Google Apps. This includes the initial business process planning, your Google Apps deployment, worry-free ongoing management, and proactive support.

The challenges that we address include data migration of potentially massive amounts of existing e-mail and documents to Google Apps, training, and best practices. We advise how to integrate Google Apps into your environment, tackling questions such as authentication options and provision of custom application extensions to fit into your workflow.

A relationship with your trusted IT partner - Bunch of Cowboys - is the preferred way to obtain a tailored implementation appropriate for your business, for the largest SaaS platform in the world!

Example Google Apps deployment and migration project components. These are project phases where Bunch of Cowboys can assist with your Google Apps migration.
• Google Apps Premier Edition account creation, administrative Dashboard configuration, user provisioning, and domain management.
• Dual-delivery strategy implementation and management.
• DNS changes and management for primary domain and dual-delivery subdomain mx records.
• Importing (upload) existing staff e-mail, calendar, and contacts from existing/prior e-mail systems and e-mail service providers to Google Apps.
• Mobility requirements,configuration and testing. Mobile devices including iPhone, android, and Blackberry.
• Training and orientation for administrators and end-users.



What is Google Apps?


Feature for feature Google Apps Premier Edition shines compared to premises based legacy e-mail solutions, while costing a third to a sixth less per user. Google Apps Premier Edition is Google's Software as a Service (SaaS) solution for business messaging, collaboration, and security. It includes Gmail, with integrated voice and video chat, Google Calendar, Google Docs, Google Sites, and Google Video. Google Apps is a reliable, cost-effective solution for keeping employees connected and improving their productivity.

User data is stored securely in multiple, geographically-dispersed data centres - so even if a server crashes or an entire data centre goes offline, users can still access their e-mail and other documents. Google Apps has a 99.9% uptime service level agreement (SLA) for Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Docs, Google Sites, and Google Talk services.

 

Why Software as a Service and Why Google Apps?

User benefits include:

• E-mail and documents accessible from anywhere, 24x7 on any computer
• 25GB of email inbox storage per user with powerful search capability
• One of the very best spam and virus filtering systems available - included
• Simple and fast collaboration and messaging tools
• Data is never lost, even if your laptop dies or is stolen
• Sharing mechanism within Docs, Sites and Video enables a new level of collaboration
IT user benefits include:

• No hardware or software to install or maintain
• Very low fixed cost per user. Studies show around a thrid of the cost of traditional e-mail.
• Intuitive applications that many users are already familiar with - little training necessary
• Ability to move users incrementally
• Savings of license fees, hardware and data center costs
• Open platform for integration
Business benefits include:

• Decreased cost- typically a third of traditional premises based e-mail.
• Increased employee productivity, enabling faster decision making.
• More flexibility to deploy changes and innovations fast and get on with business
• Focus resources on strategic initiatives instead of operational activities
• Attractive IT environment for the younger generation of employees
• Blackberry for Google Apps levels the playing field for mobile access to e-mail

 

What about security?

With traditional software, employees save data to insecure USB drives, discs and laptops for easy access. With Google Apps, because employees can access information securely from anywhere, they're less likely to save sensitive data locally. And with Google Apps' 99.9% uptime guarantee, you can be confident that employees will have access whenever they need it. The 99.9% uptime SLA for Google Apps is offered to organizations using Google Apps Premier Edition, as described in the Google Apps Premier Edition Terms of Service and covers the full range of application services as specified there.

Why is Google Apps secure?

Google operates one of the largest networks of distributed data centers in the world, and they go to great lengths to protect the data and intellectual property on these servers. These facilities are protected around the clock and they have a dedicated security operations team which focuses specifically on maintaining the security of their environment. The controls, processes and policies that protect these data have successfully completed a SAS 70 Type II audit. There are three main components to Google's security practices:

• People – Google employs a full-time information security team including some of the world’s foremost experts in information, application, and network security. This team is responsible for the company’s perimeter defense systems, security review processes, and customized security infrastructure, as well as for developing, documenting, and implementing Google’s security policies and standards.
• Process – Security is part of the Google DNA. Each application is built from the ground up with security in mind. Google applications go through multiple security reviews as part of the Secure Code development process. The application development environment is closely restricted and carefully monitored to maximize security. External security audits are also regularly conducted to provide additional assurance.
• Technology – Google Apps data is fractured and obfuscated across multiple servers and disks, making it human-unreadable. Data is replicated in multiple data centers for redundancy and consistent availability. To reduce exploit risks, each Google server is custom-built with only the necessary software components, and the homogeneous server architecture enables rapid updates and configuration changes across the entire network when necessary.
Google rely on Google Apps themselves.  They trust their own data to the products available to you. Google employees use Gmail for all corporate email, Google Calendar to schedule all meetings and events, and Google Talk to instant message among project teams. They use Google Docs for sensitive content like product design specs, and Google Sites to manage team projects.


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